{"id":5934,"date":"2019-05-06T03:04:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T03:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2019-05-06T03:05:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T03:05:59","slug":"do-not-make-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/do-not-make-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Do. Not. Make. Excuses."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Regardless of how good of a salesperson you are, you will make mistakes. When the time comes for you to reckon for your mistakes, whatever you do, don&#8217;t make excuses, just apologize. Dale Carnegie, in his great book about sales techniques highlights the importance of a swift apology when it comes to sales. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mindful.org\/2016\/02\/sorry.jpg?q=80&amp;fm=jpg&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1400&amp;h=875\" alt=\"Image result for apology\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody is perfect. Your clients, however, may expect you to be. You will inevitably make mistakes, and whether it&#8217;s offending your client or messing up something on the end of the numbers, your mistake can usually be fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Possibly the fastest way to fix your mistake is to simply apologize and move on. If you try to make any kind of excuse as to why you made the mistake, it only serves to make you look bad. An excuse does nothing to right the wrong which you have committed. However, a swift apology and a righting of your wrong will go quite far in the eyes of your customer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Making excuses will only draw out any potential conflicts and brings on a high likelihood for arguments between yourself and your customer to ensue. So, instead, when you make a mistake, own up to it, apologize, and make sure that you correct whatever it was which you messed up to begin with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of how good of a salesperson you are, you will make mistakes. When the time comes for you to reckon for your mistakes, whatever you do, don&#8217;t make excuses, just apologize. Dale Carnegie, in his great book about sales techniques highlights the importance of a swift apology when it comes to sales. Nobody is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-dont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5959,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions\/5959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}